Fairy Tail: Vector Manipulation Chapter 29

Everyone was stunned by such a gruesome death, terror written across their faces. They had seen all kinds of killing magic, but never anything so bloody and bizarre. They stared blankly at Chen Fan as he walked toward them. Under the blood-red moonlight, even Chen Fan's eyes seemed to glow an unnatural red. Numbers flickered across his glasses, making him look like a cold machine.

"Tap, tap." As Chen Fan's rhythmic footsteps slowly sounded, their hearts began pounding wildly along with them.

"Ah..." At last, one of them could no longer bear the pressure and screamed. A huge magic circle appeared beneath his feet. "Earth Spike!" he roared, slamming both hands onto the ground. "Boom..." Explosions rang out in succession as countless massive earth spikes burst from the ground around him and rapidly drove toward Chen Fan.

Chen Fan continued walking as if he had not seen them, the numbers in his eyes still flickering. The imagined scene of blood spraying everywhere never came.

Nothing happened beneath Chen Fan's feet. He still wore that calm expression. When he reached an earth spike close to him, he stretched out a hand, snapped off its pointed tip with his fingers, and held it between them.

He flicked it toward the man. The man was startled and hurriedly used Modeling Magic. "Earth Wall!" With another roar, an enormous earthen wall rose before him.

"Whoosh..." A sound shot from Chen Fan's hand.

"Boom... boom..." The earthen wall before the man gradually crumbled, revealing what lay behind it. A hole had appeared in the man's forehead, blood continuously pouring from it, while Chen Fan remained expressionless.

This time, everyone was truly terrified. Chen Fan might have considered the dead man nothing more than a minor character, but they knew how formidable he had been. They immediately used magic and scattered in all directions. They no longer dared to think of causing trouble for Chen Fan; all they wanted was to survive.

Seeing everyone flee, Chen Fan stomped his foot. The ground beneath him seemed unable to withstand the pressure and cracked apart like a spiderweb. Chunks of shattered stone floated around Chen Fan. With a light flick of his right hand, ripples spread through the air.

"Whoosh..." The sound of something tearing through the air rang out. The stones shot forward like cannonballs, sparking as they scraped through the air and screaming toward those people. "Splat." Before anyone could even scream, they were reduced to dust. Those who fled through the air became brilliant blood-red fireworks.

After watching everyone die so cleanly and efficiently, Chen Fan closed his eyes and inhaled the slightly bloody air, then sighed. He was feeling a little troubled. His superpower was good in every way except for that damned compensation effect, which was truly terrible.

He had known long ago that as his power increased, his humanity would gradually diminish. In the end, he had become someone who faced those people alone. He had not expected that now, as his strength grew greater and greater, that compensation effect would return.

He had just killed so many people, yet not even the slightest ripple had stirred in Chen Fan's heart. He truly did not know what he would become in the future, and his mood grew increasingly irritated.

Suddenly, a huge purple magic circle appeared in the sky.

"Roar!" A massive monster fell from the magic circle, landing on the ground with a furious roar.

"I will devour your souls! So then, whose soul shall I begin with?" The monster's grandiose voice rang through the air.

Chen Fan frowned at the sound. He was already annoyed; how could he possibly be in the mood to listen to its nonsense? He took a coin from his pocket and fired it at Lala Bai.

"Whoosh!" A streak of light flashed past, and the monster's head vanished. Then, without magic power to sustain it, its entire body gradually turned to dust and dispersed into the air.

Lala Bai, which had just filled everyone with terror, had died just like that. The sheer unreality of it was overwhelming. Everyone's mouths hung wide open, as if they had seen God.

Natsu raised his right hand above his brows and carefully watched the streak of light. With some amazement, he said, "Oh... what a huge shooting star!" Only someone as brainless as him would say something like that.

Gray smacked Natsu on the head and roared, "Since when have you ever seen a shooting star fly from the ground into the sky?"

"Oh, right." Natsu rubbed his head, then immediately turned fierce again. "You could've just said so. Why did you hit me on the head? Ah..."

Gray ignored him and noticed that Lucy had closed her eyes, her hands clasped before her chest. He asked in confusion, "What are you doing, Lucy?"

"Making a wish!" Lucy said very seriously.

Only Erza wore a solemn expression as she watched the fading light in the sky. She asked Makarov, "Master, what kind of magic was that? It had such destructive power."

Makarov's expression was somewhat serious as well. After looking in that direction, he had more or less guessed that it was Chen Fan. He said to everyone, "Go back. Lala Bai has been destroyed, and the Curse Song crisis has been resolved. All right, go back." He began ushering everyone away.

Seeing that Makarov had spoken, everyone, despite their doubts, found it difficult to say anything. One after another, they returned to their rooms. Only Goldman and Bob seemed to know something, but they did not say it in front of everyone.

Erza was also somewhat puzzled by the master's behavior, but she knew his temperament and did not continue questioning him. She followed Makarov toward the villa with the others.

Suddenly, Erza felt a chill run through her entire body, and she shuddered involuntarily. She looked toward the villa in fear and saw Chen Fan wearing a brilliant smile, waving his hand and shouting, "Little Erza, Little Erza!" As he shouted, he ran toward Erza.